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Police are hunting a man who indecently exposed himself to a teenage girl on a busy road in Sittingbourne.
Molly Shepherd was walking home along a busy road at about 6.30pm.
The 17-year-old nursery worker usually gets a lift home from her parents, but had to get the bus that night as there was a problem with the family car.
She was talking on her mobile to a friend, close to the cemetery in Bell Road, Sittingbourne, when she heard a man whistling and turned to see him standing on the wall of the cemetery with his trousers down.
"He jumped off the wall but the cemetery was so dark I couldn’t see where he went. I was scared he was following me" - Molly Shepherd
The victim is warning others:“Don’t walk by yourself.”
Molly was unable to give a description of the flasher because it was dark.
She had walked with a colleague from the bus stop behind the Forum shopping centre in Sittingbourne High Street to Borden Grammar School’s playing field at the junction of Bell Road with Avenue of Remembrance, before parting company with her and heading towards the Eden Village estate where she lives.
The former Fulston Manor School student said: “I was walking on the Memorial Hospital side of Bell Road when I heard whistling.
“In my head I was like ‘just ignore it, it’s dark and you’re on your own’.
“Then I heard it again so I turned and he was standing on the wall of the cemetery.
“He had dark trousers down by his ankles and I’m assuming a dark top. I couldn’t see him, just his white arms on his legs because of what he was doing to himself.
“I said to my friend on the phone ‘you need to ring my mum, I’m really scared’ and told her what had happened.
“She told me to carry on walking and to give her my mum’s number and that she would ring her [from her home phone] and stay on her mobile until I met up with her.
“I was fast walking and looking behind. As I walked around the corner he jumped off the wall but the cemetery was so dark I couldn’t see where he went. I was scared he was following me.
“My dad came running through the estate, mum was behind him, and met me at Fulston Manor Vista. He went to look for him but he couldn’t see anyone.”
The incident, which happened on on Monday, December 8, has been reported to the police by Molly's parents, Kate, 34, and Steve, 36.
Molly added: “My parents told me to walk that way because it’s well lit.
“They thought I’d be alright and so did I as there’s always people and cars about, but at that moment there was no people and no cars.”
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